President Viktor Yushchenko gathered heads of district units of the Security Service Offices in Kyiv and deputy Prosecutor General, the Prosecutor of Kyiv Evhen Blazhivskyi to discuss counteraction to political corruption during elections of Kyiv local authorities. President's press office

Ukraine's Health Ministry has stopped a campaign on vaccinating young people against measles and rubella. On May 17, 2008, the Minister ordered the withdrawal of vaccine produced by Serum Institute of India Ltd. in all of the Ukrainian regions. Cabinet's

ANDY Abraham is the UK's worst Eurovision entrant ever, according to bookmakers.

IN THE last few years, several reports about the increased risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease linked to HRT have caused concern.

MINISTERS are to consider plans for a database of electronic information, it emerged last night.

A MAN has been banned from working as an estate agent in Scotland following a conviction for fraud.

A TEENAGER who killed his two sisters when he set fire to his family home was jailed for at least six years yesterday.

IN SCHOOL corridors across Scotland, seasoned teachers fear they are becoming a minority, as increasing numbers of trainees flood into classrooms.

RADICAL plans to give individual presbyteries and congregations greater financial and administrative autonomy were approved by the Kirk's General Assembly yesterday.

GORDON Brown has launched an internet version of Prime Minister's Questions by appearing on his own page on YouTube.

THE prescribing of a drug widely used to treat diabetes is to be restricted after warnings which linked it to heart problems.

GORDON Brown is being advised to back Wendy Alexander's call for an early referendum as the best way to nullify the threat of the SNP.

SCOTTISH Labour MPs seem to share similar traits with the pandas which Edinburgh Zoo hopes to be breeding in the near future. Pandas are famously obstinate about reproducing o

WOMEN should not be put off using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) because of over-hyped fears about its health risks, a panel of international experts concluded yest

IN DAYS gone by rock managers were like an extra member of the band â€" cigar chompers who steered artists through life, nurtured their talents and negotiated the best deals.

DAVID Cameron has ventured into territory that even Margaret Thatcher could not deliver on: cutting public expenditure.

SCIENTISTS have been given the green light to use animal-human hybrid embryos for medical research after MPs yesterday resisted calls for an outright ban.